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Using AI to Track the Spread of COVID-19

These are the tools we need to use, if we are to successfully fight the disease.

Love them or hate them, computers are here to stay and they can do some amazing things. See this 60 Minutes story, The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreak.

I'll write about the issue of technology and personal liberties in another blog post. However, when our economic world is crashing down around our ears, we need to use every tool available to fight back. Knowing where the virus is and how it is spreading is powerful information that could have been used to help us respond better to the outbreak of the coronavirus, and it can help us today moving forward.

For those who are worried about "Big Brother" following you, get over it and have a job!

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.